Dust-proof ink-well cover.



' No. 806,896. O PATENTED DEC. 12, 1905.

J. KASTNER, JR.

DUST PROOF INK WELL COVER. APPLIOATION FILED MAY18,1905.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN KASTNER, J R, OF EVAN SVILLE, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR, BY DIRECT AND MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, OF ONETHIRD TO FRED W. GOEDEKE AND ONE- THIRD TO SIGURD E. ANDERSON, BOTH OF EVANSVILLE, INDIANA.

DUST-PROOF lNK'-WELL COVER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 12, 1905.

Application filed May 18, 1905- Serial No. 261,026.

1'0 all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, JOHN KASTNER, Jr., a citizen of the United States, residing at Evansville, county of Vanderburg, and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Dust-Proof Ink-VVell Covers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to dustproof inkwell covers, and more particularly to those adapted to be attached to a school or other desk having a sunken ink-well.

The object of the present invention is the provision of a more simple, cheap, and durable device of the character set forth than those heretofore known to the'art; and to this end the invention comprises a frame formed of two pieces of sheet metal soldered or otherwise connected together, which together form a guideway in connection with a sheetmetal flangedslide or cover for the ink-well, the frame being provided with an opening adapted to register with the top of the usual ink-well, which is sunk in the desk in a wellknown manner, and said frame being adapted for connection to the top of the desk over the ink-well.

The invention is set forth in detail hereinafter, and the novel features are recited in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a plan view of the invention in use. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the device; Fig. 3, a cross-section; Fig. 4, a detail view of the respective parts of the frame, shown detached to illustrate their internal construction; and Fig. 5, a detail of the slide or cover.

Thenumeral l designates the top of an ordinary school-desk, which is provided with the usual ink-well 2, sunk therein below the top of the desk.

My improved ink-well cover consists of a frame composed of the outer part 3, the inner part 4, and the slide or cover 5, all of which are of sheet metal. The outer part 3 has a raised portion 6, provided with a circular opening 7 of about the same size as the ink-well and provided with diametrically opposite notches 8 and 9. The outer part 3also has a flange 10, provided with screw-holes 11, by which the device may be screwed down tightly on the desk, so as to exclude all dust. The inner part 4 has an opening 7, corresponding to the opening 7, and it is provided with the flanges l2 and fits into the raised portion 6 of the outer frame member 3 and is connected thereto by soldering or by lips or otherwise. This provides a space or guideway between the parts 3and 4 for the slide or cover 5, which has the side and end flanges 5, causing it to fit tightly and yet be adapted for movement between the outer and inner parts 3 and 4. The tight fitting of the slide or cover 5 absolutely prevents the access of dust to the ink-well, and there are no projecting parts to be injured or broken. The slide 5 is provided with a finger-hold 15, adapted to engage either of the notches 8 or 9, and formed by bending up the material.

When the ink-well is to be used, the cover or slide 5 is pulled back, thus exposing the ink-well; but after use the slide is drawn over the ink-well and tightly closes the same and excludes all dust.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. An ink-well cover or closure attachment for desks, comprising a guiding-frame adapted for attachment to the desk and composed of two parts having an opening therethrough to permit access to the ink-well, said parts being separated and a cover or slide located between said parts of the frame and adapted to close the ink-well opening through them.

2. An ink-well cover or closure attachment for desks, comprising a guiding-frame adapted for attachment to the desk and composed of two parts having an opening therethrough to permit access to the ink-well, one of said parts having an ofiset portion and the other part provided with flanges fitting in the oifset portion, said parts of the frame being separated, and a cover or slide for the ink-well which is movable in the space between the parts of the guiding-frame and said cover being adapted to close the ink-well opening in said frame parts.

3. An ink-well cover or closure attachment for desks, comprising a guiding-frame adapted for attachment to the desk and having an opening to permit access to the ink-well, and a cover or slide movable in said guiding-frame and adapted to close the opening therein said cover being provided with flanges where it moves within the guiding-frame.

4. An ink-well cover or closure attachment for desks, comprising a guiding-frame adapted for attachment to the desk and having an opening to permit access to the ink-well, and a cover or slide movable in said guiding-frame and adapted to close the opening therein said cover being provided with side and end flanges where it moves within the guiding-frame.

5. An ink-well cover or closure attachment fordesks,comprisingatwo-partguiding-frame adapted for attachment .to the desk, the parts of said frame being separated and lie one under the other and have an opening to permit access to the ink-well, and a cover or slide for the ink-well which is movable between the two parts of the frame aforesaid and adapted to close the ink-well opening, said cover or slide being provided with flanges where it moves between the parts of the frame aforesaid.

6. An ink-well cover or closure attachment for desks, comprising a two-part frame adapted for attachment to the desk, one part of said frame being offset and the other part having flanges and received within the offset portion aforesaid, both of said parts having an opening to permit access to the ink-well, and a cover or slide movable between the parts of the frame aforesaid and adapted to close the ink-well opening, said cover or .slide being provided with flanges where it moves between the two parts of the frame aforesaid.

In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN KASTNER, J R. 

